"As a convicted felon, Spengler could not legally own guns, but The New York Times reported there had been recent gun thefts in the county, citing local authorities."

"The gunman, William Spengler, 62, shot and killed himself in an ensuing gunfight with police. He had spent 17 years in prison for beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer in 1981, authorities said."

"I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down and do what I like doing best, killing people," Pickering read from the gunman's statement.

"As a convicted felon, Spengler could not legally own guns, but The New York Times reported there had been recent gun thefts in the county, citing local authorities."

"The gunman, William Spengler, 62, shot and killed himself in an ensuing gunfight with police. He had spent 17 years in prison for beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer in 1981, authorities said."

"I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down and do what I like doing best, killing people," Pickering read from the gunman's statement.

Correction: they may have been alive. Mad people have no qualms about devising ways of killing in the absence of guns. There's many "options" available, and that's just in the "cleaning" aisle of the grocery store... there's no need to even bother with the hardware store that's a couple of blocks further down.

but if guns were somewhat restricted with better controls changing the culture of a nation over the next few generations it could also work... slowly, but absolutely

that's dumb, there should be guns every where they should have gum ball machines that spit out guns for a quarter,they should have gun dispensers just like newspapers dispensers put 50 cents in and pull out a gun.if guns where just lying all over the place it would make us much safer